Scientists yesterday told the Copenhagen Climate Change summit that without drastic cuts in pollution by 2020, at a cost of £150/year per person on the planet, the chances of limiting global temperature rises to the widely debated ...READ»
Last week, we reported on a study from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers that suggested creating forests of synthetic trees and algae-lined buildings to absorb CO2 and delay climate change. And earlier this month, we wrote about a ...READ»
As climate change accelerates, scientists keep coming up with increasingly fanciful schemes to fight it. Earlier this month we took a look at a plan to deploy ships that spray climate change-battling clouds, and now comes word from a ...READ»
Nature stopped being natural decades ago.
That is to say, starting the mid-19th century, human activity has changed global ecosystem conditions in ways that fall outside the normal variations visible in geological ...READ»
Geo-engineering—the idea that we can fix our carbon problem with a massively-scaled techno-intervention—might be amazing. But the projects—from seeding the ocean with iron to creating highly reflective artificial ...READ»
British researchers are proposing an intriguing idea: That by planting the right kinds of wheat, we can affect how much light is being reflected back into space and thereby counteract global warming. The effect might cool swathes of ...READ»
